Awards & Honors

Saint Thomas Hospital Awards and Recognitions

(Oct. 18, 2011) Saint Thomas Hospital has been recognized by HealthGrades for treatment of stroke:

• Named HealthGrades One of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for Treatment of Stroke in 2012
• Recipient of the HealthGrades Neurosciences Excellence Award™ in 2012
• Recipient of the HealthGrades Stroke Care Excellence Award™ for 2 Years in a Row (2011-2012)
• Ranked Among the Top 5% in the Nation for Treatment of Stroke for 2 Years in a Row (2011-2012)
• Ranked #1 in TN for Treatment of Stroke for 2 Years in a Row (2011-2012)
• Ranked Among the Top 5 in TN for Treatment of Stroke for 3 Years in a Row (2010-2012) (Ranked #1 in 2012)
• Five-Star Rated for Treatment of Stroke for 3 Years in a Row (2010-2012)

(July 19, 2011) Saint Thomas Hospital has been ranked as high performing in five specialties, including cardiology and heart surgery, gastroenterology, geriatrics, orthopedics and pulmonology, and No. 2 in the Nashville metro area in U.S. News Media & World Report’s 2011-12 Best Hospitals list.

(April 18, 2011) The Saint Thomas Hospital Outpatient Cardiac Imaging Center has received reaccreditation with ICAEL (Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiographic Laboratories).

(April 15, 2011) – The Joint Commission has recertified the Saint Thomas Hospital Advanced Primary Stroke Center. Saint Thomas Hospital first received Stroke Center Certification in February 2007.

(April 14, 2011) – Saint Thomas Hospital has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval™ for its Joint Replacement Program by demonstrating compliance with The Joint Commission’s national standards for health care quality and safety in disease-specific care.

(March 29, 2011) – Saint Thomas Hospital has been ranked one of the best hospitals in Nashville in U.S. News & World Report’s first-ever Best Hospitals metro area rankings. The new rankings recognize 622 hospitals in or near major cities with a record of high performance in key medical specialties, including 132 of the 152 hospitals already identified as the best in the nation.

(March 28, 2011) – Saint Thomas Hospital has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals® by Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of information and solutions to improve the cost and quality of healthcare. This is the tenth time Saint Thomas Hospital has been recognized with this honor.

(March 22, 2011) – Saint Thomas Health Centers for Breast Health with locations at Baptist and Saint Thomas Hospitals in Nashville and Middle Tennessee Medical Center in Murfreesboro, Tenn., are the first facilities in Middle Tennessee to receive a three-year, full accreditation designation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program administered by the American College of Surgeons.

(Feb. 28, 2011) – Becker's Hospital Review has named Saint Thomas Hospital one of the “50 Best Hospitals in America.”  According to Becker’s Hospital Review, the 50 best hospitals cover a wide spectrum from well-known academic medical centers to less widely recognized community hospitals that have reached greatness.

(Jan. 11, 2011) – Cardiologists at Saint Thomas Hospital are the first in Tennessee to offer the Arctic Front® Cardiac CryoAblation Catheter system, the first and only cryoballoon in the United States indicated to treat drug refractory recurrent symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF), a serious heart rhythm disorder that affects millions of Americans.

(Jan. 5, 2011) – Saint Thomas Hospital’s Medical Director of Cardiac Transplant, Mark Aaron, M.D., and Medical Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, Douglas Pearce, M.D., have earned sub-specialty certification in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology from the American Board of Internal Medicine. Drs. Aaron and Pearce are among the first cardiologists in Tennessee to earn this distinction.

(Oct. 23, 2010) – The Saint Thomas Hospital Center for Breast Health has received the Outstanding Program Award from the Academy of Oncology Nurse Navigators (AONN). The AONN presented the Excellence in Navigation & Survivorship Awards at its first annual Navigation & Survivor Conference where more than 400 U.S. and international oncology patient navigators and other professionals attended. Saint Thomas was among the recipients recognized for excellence in patient navigation and survivorship care.

(Oct. 19, 2010) - The Saint Thomas Health's Center for Multiple Sclerosis (MS) has been designated the first Comprehensive Center for MS Care in Tennessee by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society (NMSS).

(Aug. 23, 2010) – Richard John Geer, MD, FACS, Nashville, TN, a Cancer Liaison Physician (CLP) at Saint Thomas Hospital, has received an Outstanding Performance Award for going above and beyond the scope of  the normal duties of serving as a liaison between the cancer program  and the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC). 

(Aug. 11, 2010) – Saint Thomas Hospital’s Cardiac Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) Destination Therapy has earned the Gold Seal of Approval™ for health care quality from The Joint Commission. Saint Thomas Hospital is the first Middle Tennessee hospital to earn this cardiac disease specific accreditation from the Joint Commission.

(June 18, 2010) – The Society of Chest Pain Centers (SCPC) has granted the three-year designation, “Accredited Chest Pain Center with PCI” to the Chest Pain Center at Saint Thomas Hospitals. There are 594 Accredited Chest Pain Centers in the United States.

(April 1, 2010) – The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons has granted its 2009 Outstanding Achievement Award to Saint Thomas Hospital, which is one of a select group of 82 currently accredited and newly accredited cancer programs across the United States.

(March 29, 2010) – Saint Thomas Hospital has been named a 100 Top Hospital by Thomson Reuters Healthcare. This is the ninth time Saint Thomas Hospital has earned this distinction. The Thomson Reuters 100 Top Hospitals®: National Benchmarks study is based on the 100 Top Hospitals National Balanced Scorecard that evaluates performance in nine areas: mortality, medical complications, patient safety, average length of stay, expenses, profitability, cash-to-debt ratio, patient satisfaction, and adherence to clinical standards of care.

(Jan. 20, 2010) – Saint Thomas Hospital is the first in Middle Tennessee to offer a new outpatient therapy for heart failure patients, the Aquapheresis medical therapy system. Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart can’t pump enough blood to the body’s other organs. One of the symptoms of heart failure is the retention and accumulation of fluid around the heart and the body’s vital organs. Heart failure patients are typically admitted to the hospital for four to five days to have that fluid drained.

(Oct. 29, 2009) – Saint Thomas Hospital has received the American Stroke Association’s Get With The Guidelines–Stroke Gold Performance Achievement Award. The award recognizes Saint Thomas Hospital’s commitment and success in implementing a higher standard of stroke care by ensuring that stroke patients receive treatment for at least 24 months according to nationally accepted standards and recommendations. Saint Thomas is the only Nashville hospital to receive Gold recognition.

(August 3, 2009) – The Commission on Cancer (CoC) of the American College of Surgeons (ACoS) has granted Three-Year Accreditation with Commendation to the Cancer Program at Saint Thomas Hospital.

(March 30, 2009) – Saint Thomas Hospital has been named one of the nation’s 100 Top Hospitals by Thomson Reuters Healthcare. This is the eighth time Saint Thomas Hospital has earned this distinction.

(March 11, 2009) – The Joint Commission has awarded Saint Thomas Hospital Advanced Primary Stroke Center Certification. Saint Thomas Hospital earned this distinction after the Joint Commission conducted an on-site review on March 5, 2009, as part of their recertification process. Saint Thomas Hospital first received Stroke Center Certification in February 2007.